He gives you the look of a child who suspects he's being made fun of, but the sword draws his attention back. "Can I hold it?"
You frown at the blade in exaggerated thought. "Better not. If you swing it wrong you might knock down a building."
This statement is anime as fuck.
Professor Dieter Vogt is the Head of Agronomy at the Royal Academy of Talabecland, which gives him the opportunity to leave an impression on much of Talabecland's future nobility.
Dieter Vogt seems like a really limp-wristed showing from the Jades. I wonder if Paranoth & The Druidics even
want Mandred in their College, politically. It might wind up inflaming things, ironically enough. Introducing Mandred could create a fourth internal faction (Secularists/Druidics/
Vehemently Unaffiliated/Imperial Syncophants).
Haruspex Stern Glanzend's most oft-used title is rather erroneous. Where haruspicy is the art of using the entrails of the slain to predict the future, Stern divines the future to cause the entrails of the enemies of the Empire to be spilled. He is always sought after by the Empire's Generals, not least of which because if the omens are unclear, he goes out onto the battlefield and summons comets and lightning to simplify matters.
On the other hand, Haruspex Glanzend seems
cool as all hell. It's a shame that the Denzel Debacle weighs on them so much that he took the Celestials out of the running (going by vote options).
"The nobles generally know us as the blade in the dark," you say, "but the rest of the world knows us as the Grey Guardians, they that know what must be known, and tell what must be told. The symbol of our Order is the Sword of Judgement, and I believe Mandred can be taught to wield it with skill and artfulness. A ruler that can be both the knife in the dark and the sword at dawn could be just what the Empire will need in the years to come."
Speaking of limp-wristed, this LM Weber really does feel like the Greys wanted to show willing, so they had their personal connection show up to half argue their virtues, and half play kingmaker. I bet she has Diplomacy as a dump stat
.
In more seriousness, I don't think I would be convinced by Mathilde's argument here and
we are Mathilde, lmao.
God the thread has moved fast today. Slightly below-average amount of knife-fighting, but maybe that's because some of it was diffused in the couple of days before the update.
The former. The Emperor recognizes that it would be foolishness to believe he could make a more informed decision on the matter than a hand-picked panel of subject-matter experts.
Ah, putting the
Fantasy in Warhammer Fantasy.
Having read the thread, I love me some distant metaphysics and world building as much as anyone, but I do think the Golds would be better for Mandred overall.
